An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists have observed quakes that reverse course, further shaking up areas that ...

Artist’s rendering of the Seismic Valley Library, an immersive earthquake simulator featured in Seismic Valley: The ...

The statewide tour comes ahead of the Great California ShakeOut on Thursday, when millions of Californians are expected to ...

An earthquake simulator capable of replicating the intensity of a magnitude 7.0 temblor will visit Balboa Park this week ...

Major earthquakes around the world over the past year are a reminder of how quickly and unexpectedly disaster can strike.

A small milestone towards our vision of autonomous safe discovery of critical phenomena and failure modes in dynamic testing applications. The crucial innovation is safe test article-agnostic control ...

The highest stress value anywhere in a 1,000-year computer history of Southern California’s faults sits on the San Jacinto-Bernardino section, at 3.6 megapascals. The Mojave South stretch of the San ...

Newswise — The Hayward fault, part of the larger San Andreas fault system, runs 74 miles through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The fault is overdue for an earthquake that could cause ...

Pacific Northwest The Oregon Convention Center in Portland hosted the latest US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (Courtesy: Jeremy Jeziorski/CC BY 2.0) Earthquake ground-motion ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers at UC San Diego on Monday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake. The ...